Maggie is a 2 ½ year old, 50 lb., spayed female yellow Labrador retriever. Maggie is a sweet, affectionate, high-energy little girl who loves people like crazy! There is nothing she wants more than to be in physical contact with her humans. However, Maggie has too much energy and not enough confidence to become a service dog. Maggie can be noise sensitive and worried in busy and chaotic environments.
Maggie requires significant daily exercise. She needs a family with … [Read more...]

October has been another wonderful month of training and learning new things. New vocabulary words that i have been working on include: "pull, push, light, go-through, bring, hold, leave-it, place, step and come" just to name a few. I am able to pick up a quarter, penny, and a dime off of carpet. I have done a pretty good job at pressing handicapped buttons on doors and the cross-walk buttons. I have done an 'ok' job with turning the lights on and off. I did well on open steps.
I attended a … [Read more...]

September has been nice especially since the weather has remained warm. Since it has been warm, I get to play ball as early as 6:00am and in the evening we play ball at 9:00pm. I am fortunate that my puppy raiser loves to play ball too and in the rain! What are the chances?`
My favorite game is "find it". I have a plastic container with holes in the lid, my raiser puts smelly food inside and hides it in the yard and I get to sniff it out. The game begins with me sitting patiently in our mud … [Read more...]

This August was full of new and exciting things. This month I went to a family reunion, Aikido, Hero Dogs Golf Tournament, Ocean City, the hair salon, my first communion, meetings, the metro and hung out with friends!
I went with my family to go and watch my puppy raiser practice Aikido. I sat on the floor and watched people use big wooden swords and make loud scary noises, but I didn’t really care.
I went to the zoo with HD Honor for the first time! We had a great time and all of the … [Read more...]

My summer is full of fun activities such as fireworks, swimming, work meetings, and outside training.
The Fourth of July was awesome. My puppy raisers were a little hesitant to take me to see fireworks, but at the last minute we decided to go. It was 9pm, and we all brushed our teeth and the girls were in their PJs. I was getting into my crate when "Mom" announced that we were going to find fireworks! She got me "dressed,"'and we (Mom and my human sisters) drove to a parking garage in … [Read more...]

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